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The Asian Development Bank has approved a $500 million policy-based loan to help Indonesia accelerate its energy transition and achieve its net zero targets.

Carbon removal buyers club Frontier has agreed a deal worth over $25 million for credits linked to river de-acidification from a Canadian firm.

A project developer for Indigenous-led conservation projects will partner with an atmospheric-based digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (aMRV) solution provider to map 1 million acres across 12 Afforestation, Reforestation, and Restoration (ARR) projects.

The Danish government has stepped forward to ask the European Commission to alter a law that allows EU companies to export pesticides banned in the bloc.

Indonesian state-owned oil company Pertamina on Monday announced two of its subsidiaries have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that over time will see the company enter the market for transport of liquid CO2 (LCO2).

A transcript reveals the OceanGate chief in a heated exchange, years before he and four others died when the submersible imploded.

European carbon prices strengthened on Monday as they built on Friday's recovery, taking cues once again from a stronger TTF gas market, though analysts continued to point to technical indicators that could see prices break to the downside.

A California-based venture capital firm focusing on climate technology has announced the closure of a $10-million decarbonisation fund that supports startups.

Firms underreported true scale of sewage pollution for 10 years, which allowed them to set higher bills, tribunal told

Six water companies overcharged customers between £800m and £1.5bn by “significantly or systematically” underreporting the true scale of their sewage pollution of rivers and waterways, a tribunal has heard.

In the first environmental competition class action against water companies in England, lawyers argued that the privatised firms had abused their monopoly position to mislead regulators over the amount of sewage they were discharging from their assets over the past 10 years.

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Temporary mitigation “off-ramps" could help countries manage the significant challenges associated with the rapid decarbonisation experts say is needed to meet global net zero emissions targets.

One of Australia’s largest waste and landfill gas producers is on track to meet climate targets that it says fully align with a Paris 1.5C scenario.

Requiring key sectors to switch to clean energy sources could trigger benevolent cascades, report claims

In the terminology of the climate and ecological crises the phrase “tipping point” is loaded with dreadful implications.

It evokes a climate breakdown supercharged by the mass escape of methane locked in Siberian permafrost, or the great currents of the oceans smothered by freshwater melting from the Greenland ice sheet, or the Amazon turning from great rainforest to parched savannah after the felling of one too many trees.

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International efforts to meet the UN’s nature-focused Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on life below water and on land are falling far short of their 2030 targets, according to a report released on Monday.

Voters in Switzerland rejected on Sunday a proposal to enhance nature protection in the country, with opponents claiming the reform would be too costly and jeopardise business development.

Antoine Armand, the new French economy and finance minister, pledged to continue fighting for the country’s energy sovereignty, saying “the major challenge of our century is the climate emergency”, as EU acquaintance Agnes Pannier-Runacher makes a comeback as the country’s climate and energy minister.

Marine-based carbon sinks have a great potential to contribute to Taiwan's climate targets, though more action is needed to establish carbon removal datasets, a study has found.

Ecuador voted overwhelmingly to legalise carbon markets, Bolivia’s president prepared to accept – and centralise – carbon trading, and Brazil welcomed a slew of high-profile investments in the week ending Sep. 22.

The legislated review for Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism will likely see the scheme’s baselines tighten to meet more ambitious emissions reduction targets, which would ultimately be bullish for carbon credit prices, according to a bank’s analysis.

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, detailed the Coalition’s nuclear power plan in a speech in Sydney but did not announce its cost, saying it is coming 'in due course'. 'Our nuclear plan requires a significant upfront cost, and you can look at the international examples to see as much. But a whole new and vast transmission network and infrastructure won’t be needed under the plan that we’re putting forward,' Dutton said

• Dutton praises Canada to sell nuclear plan. But does Ontario really have cheaper power?

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NRW, Wales' environmental watchdog, is making job cuts to plug a £13m gap in its budget.